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N. PETERS, FHOTO-UTHOGRAPHER. WANINKSTONv DJL UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WARREN W. AMES, OF DE RUYTER, NEW YORK.

ADDRESSING-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 235,485, dated December 14, 1880, Application filed September 27, 1880. (No model.)

' which will .enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig. 2is a longitudinal vertical section.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention relates to machines for addressing newspapers and other mail matter; and it consists in the combination, with the sliding galley and stamp, of a pivoted pawl which feeds the galley forward when the stamp is raised to imprint the address, and athumbscrew for gaging or regulating the movement of the stamp-lever to suit the type used in making up the galley-form and the number of lines in the address, substantially as hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed drawings,A is the base-plate, and B the galley containing the type of each address, set up consecutively, as shown at a a. O O are the side pieces, which are extended to form guide-flanges c 0, connected on one side by the top plate, D, the upper end or top of the sides 0 being connected by a crossbar, E, made with an upwardly-curved lip, 0, through which is inserted the thumb-screw F.

G isthestamp-lever, whichgis pivoted on a pin, 9, between the sides 0 O, and is provided with the stamp or platen E. On one side of it and the galley through an open space, h,

between the top plate, D, and another plate or cross-piece, D, connecting the sides 0 O.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the drawings, the operation of my invention will be readily understood without further explanation.

The galleys with the addresses to be printed on the mail matter are fed consecutively to the stamp atone end of the box formed by the base A and sides 0 O, the pawl I working them forward at each rising of the stamp.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States In combination, the frame or casing composed of the base-plate A, sides 0 0, and upper cross-bar,'E, having curved lip or projection 6, set-screwF, inserted through said lip, lever G, pivoted between the sides 0 0, below the set-screw, and provided with the platen H, and pawl I, hung in the shaft of lever G, as shown and specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WARREN WHITFORD AMES. Witnesses B. G. STILLMAN, J r., Q. F. WHITE. 

